Posted on 03/02/2012 3:41:01 PM PST by Baynative
WASHINGTON - Democratic Rep. Norm Dicks, a former UW football player who cast a giant presence over state and national politics for decades, announced Friday he'll retire at the end of the year after 18 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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People are used to sex garbage but, the economy being as it is they get pretty pissed about being ripped off. Dicks is the top 1% of the 1% ers.
their now-famous joint Cox-Dicks Report...Edited by Weiner.
Very amusing about the name, but this guy seems to be straight-laced. In any event, he was more pro-military than his fellow Democrats on the Pacific Coast.
In the race to succeed, state Senator Derek Kilmer has announced. Kilmer represents a sprawling district which is very marginal. If he’s elected, Republicans have a shot at winning there. Kilmer is expected to be joined by several DemocRAT officials.
Republicans have won elections in that area in the past. Tacoma had well-liked a Republican Mayor with a working class background (Doug Sutherland, who later became state Lands Commissioner, at 75 y/o, a comeback attempt is not practical). Also, the late former Governor candidate Ellen Craswell was a state Senator from the Bremerton area for a years (though she won on a recount in 1988 and was unseated in 1992). I don’t know if there are many elected Republicans in the area now.
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